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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Ugh ...',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="health">
	<h2>The lab</h2>
	<p>
		Strangely, it seems the lab in which my blood was drawn is partly cut off from the rest of the clinic.
		The clinic has a copy of my insurance card, but the lab wanted a copy as well.
		I didn&apos;t have it on hand because I was never told I&apos;d need it, and because I had no reason to believe I&apos;d need in in a clinic that already had a copy.
		Also, the lab says they prefer to see and make a copy of the insurance card every upon every visit, not just the first.
		Um.
		What?
		Okay, I can bring it in the future, but why do you need a copy every time?
		That&apos;s just insane.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="luck">
	<h2>Lucky number day</h2>
	<p>
		The lucky ending digit for this week is zero.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		I finished up the grading in both courses, then the discussion assignment in the maths course:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Time is continuous; the two months aren&apos;t separate lines, but separate segments of one, continuous line.
			Such a line isn&apos;t always straight, but it can&apos;t intersect with itself.
			I think the problem in your graph is that it treats January 01 as the same day as February 01, January 02 as the same day as February 02, et cetera, causing multiple days to appear like they have the same x value when they really shouldn&apos;t.
			When measuring price changes over time, you don&apos;t &quot;start over&quot; between months.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		With that discussion finished, I focused on the one for the English course.
		I did most of what I needed to, though I deliberately put off the final post I need, which I&apos;ll finish up tomorrow.
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Personally, I prefer longer stories.
			If you compare that one to the others on the same website, you also find it to be half to a third the length.
			I read the story and, even though I&apos;m short on time these days, I still wanted to continue reading.
			I guess it didn&apos;t <strong>*need*</strong> to be longer, but I&apos;d&apos;ve enjoyed it more if it was.
			Just like how they didn&apos;t need to use the proper names of the deities, but I&apos;d&apos;ve enjoyed it more if they had.
			It&apos;s just a personal preference.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Your description of the story reminds me very much of my mother.
			When she split up with my father, she did whatever she could to hurt him, even to the point where she tried to get her children to side against him.
			She disowned my younger brother for wanting to spend time with both parents.
			Ironically, in doing so, she cut herself off from her only son, hurting herself and hurting her son, but not hurting the person she was originally aiming to: my father.
			My father is the only of our parents to still have contact with him!
			One of my sisters wants nothing to do with our father, but she&apos;s the only one of the four of us to take that stance.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I noticed the same thing.
			As for your question of why, I have my theories.
			We were given three options: a $a[PDF] (The Bath), a webpage (Popular Mechanics), and a webpage with a whole list of stories to look through.
			The list on that third option isn&apos;t terrible to go through by any means, but why look through a list when you could just choose one of the main two stories?
			And I don&apos;t know about most students here, but $a[PDF]s are a bit of a pain to work with for me, compared to webpages.
			Again, not terrible, but a hassle.
			So why not choose Popular Mechanics, the one on a regular webpage?
		</p>
		<p>
			That said, I was one of the people that <strong>*didn&apos;t*</strong> choose popular mechanics, so I can only speculate as to why people did.
			If not for other factors though, it&apos;s what I would&apos;ve chosen too.
			Then again, I&apos;m pretty busy, so any time I save is helpful.
		</p>
		<p>
			I also think we would&apos;ve gotten more variety if we could see what other students chose before choosing our own.
			Because we can&apos;t see the submissions of other students until we submit our own posts, we weren&apos;t able to avoid choosing stories that&apos;d already been covered.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			After reading your review of it, I had to see that story for myself.
			Wow.
			That&apos;s some tale.
			It certainly is a new spin on the genre, and a pretty depressing one at that.
			Personally, I&apos;d love to never have to end, but I guess the zombies in that story didn&apos;t feel the same way.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I really wasn&apos;t feeling it today.
		I&apos;ve been having great days by mostly ignoring my coursework, but that means I&apos;ve got to compress my coursework, and thus my negative feelings toward the school, into a couple days.
		I guess it&apos;s worth it.
		Overall, I feel better.
		Still, it&apos;s a pain today.
		There&apos;s just no way to win here.
		On that note, I&apos;m dying to know how students are reacting to the couple paragraphs I submitted last week. I don&apos;t get to know for a couple more days.
	</p>
</section>
END
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